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I would temper your hot take. Nothing you described is a feature specific to Excel from what I can tell, and using Excel in front of an ERP is most likely an
by candiddevmike 2y ago
I would temper your hot take.
Nothing you described is a feature specific to Excel from what I can tell, and using Excel in front of an ERP is most likely an anti-pattern as the ERP is meant to handle reporting and authorization in a centralized way.
- Etheryte 2y agoNearly everyone who knows how to use a computer knows how to use Excel to some extent. That is a feature of Excel that pretty much no other software solution can bring to the table.
- andyferris 2y agoI would contend that any user that can use Excel could pick up e.g. Google sheets instantly, especially in an audit capability where you want to scan the data (and view a couple formulae) rather than craft it from scratch.
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoYeah. But then all your data lands at Google and now you’re at their mercy. I like my Excel offline thank you.
- prmoustache 2y agoI now I am probably part of a minority but I am totally lost with excel (and libreoffice calc). I used to export to csv and use perl whenever I had to manipulate data. These days I even import to an sqlite database and use either the sqlite cli (or ruby). Thanksfully I don't have to deal with excel files all too often.
- jimnotgym 2y agoHa ha ha The power of ERP is that it is so rigid and repeatable. Which is great for all the things that stay the same. My country just introduced a law on reporting payment performance to suppliers. My US ERP provider didn't think of that 5 years ago...so we did it in Excel. Say we are in 50 countries (we are in more) each with their own changing requirements... think the ERP could keep up? But not all of the places in my country are on the same ERP. Many of the foreign places are not (the joys of acquisition!) yet. What do we do in the mean time?